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By her eighth birthday, Alys Raine had recited the entirety of the Common Law in one sitting and had already started her memorization of the seven treaties devoted to it. Always preferring her studies to the long hours of combat training, only her dream of one day becoming a Marshal kept her going. Now, a rising star among her comrades, the name Alys Raine drives fear into the hearts of the unjust throughout all of Terrinoth. A Marshal of the Citadel is a master of both combat and knowledge, bringing justice everywhere it is needed. In the field, they serve as judge, jury, and executioner and exercise their duties with passion and haste.

Thaiden has an uncanny knack for finding things that others cannot. He led his clan through the Crags of the Forgotten, rescued his love from the center of the Gray Wastes, and recovered his grandmother’s hairpin from an abundantly large haystack… or so it is said. He never planned to use his talents to avenge the deaths of those he loved. When the murderers were never found, however, he took matters into his own hands. He never speaks about that journey or what he did when he found those responsible. If asked, his eyes grow dark, and he speaks only of what he will do when he finds his current quarry.

“I have waited in silence for far too long. Now the world will know my song.”

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This peaceful-seeming priestess of the Sudanyan tradition has lived alone in the wilderness for many years, her days filled with base survival needs and endless meditation. Beautiful and powerful, she knows the time draws near when she will be called to serve the ancient city, and she has no intention of shirking her duty.

Rendiel’s wanderlust began when he heard a snippet of a song hummed by a human merchant on the edges of the Aymhelin. When Rendiel pressed the merchant for more of his song, the man apologized, explaining he didn’t know where he’d heard it and could only remember that one phrase. Reasoning that a human must have heard the song in human lands, Rendiel has set out on a journey throughout Terrinoth, a quest to find the song that haunts him.

Every seven years, for seven days, the hidden monastery of the Serpent’s Shadow appears atop a remote mountain in Terrinoth. During that time, they take new students and dispatch their disciples to attend to their business in the realm. Years ago, at dawn on the eighth day, Tinashi returned late to find the mountain empty. Trapped with no place to call home, Tinashi now wanders throughout Terrinoth, using the skills and moral code taught by her order.

“Whoever heard of a gnomish wizard?” they said. To the big folk, gnomes are hardly worthy of notice, never to be respected and certainly never trusted. Ravaella Lightfoot saw no reason to be stopped by this, managing to gain access to the University. Despite efforts of the faculty and staff, she acquired many skills in the mystic arts. Now, she plies her trade to prove that gnomes can do anything the smelly giants can do, and better at that!

Orkell the Swift was once a bandit, exulting in the excitement of his daring raids and the glory of battle and bloodshed. One fateful day, a child’s cry caused Orkell to look over the devastation he left behind, and he saw what he had refused to see before in the suffering of his victims. Since that day, Orkell has been a changed man. Ever ready to hurl himself into the fray, he now does so to defend the helpless, bringing swift brutality to any meaning them harm.